Posts by Amelia Ashton

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Cannot completely open BroDan's post on e-mails to BBC.

by compound complex in

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i can only see his opening post but go no further ... other threads work fine.. ?.

will check in tonight after work.. thanks,.

cc.

Amelia Ashton

Satan is trying to stop us from exposing his publishing company. He doesn't want anyone to stop all those lovely books about him being printed!

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Watchtower: Telling truth is only an entitlement, not a requirement.

by FatFreek 2005 in

while i didn't listen to the recent audio interview (see this thread), a certain watchtower official denied that disfellowshipped people are shunned by their relatives.

i was understandably irked at that bald-faced lie since for the last 33 years i've been shunned by two of my children.

then i thought -- hey, that official simply reverted to his watchtower teaching.. that jwn thread may not show up.

I have had to take some right s**t from various elders over the years but I could always make an excuse for them, they didn't understand the situation fully/immature/covering their own backs/wait on Jehovah etc etc but this statement was like being slapped in the face with a cold wet fish.

It is a bare faced lie they have tried to conceal with clever words. Only people like us really know the truth and in their eyes we just don't count.

Here is an exact transcript of the statement given to the reporter by the Bethel in London:

"Witnesses do not shun family members because of differences in religious beliefs. Many Witnesses have religiously mixed families and enjoy normal loving relationships together. If a family member who is a baptized Witness is disfellowshipped the spiritual ties he had with his family change, but blood ties remain. Accordingly, the marriage relationship and normal family affections and dealings can continue. As for disfellowshipped relatives not living in the same household we apply the counsel from the Bible at 1 Corinthians: "quit mixing with them." The scriptures are sacred to us and we therefore take this counsel seriously. The degree of family contact is a personal decision based on one's Bible trained conscience. If there are consequences, these relate primarily to one's relationship with God."

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Cannot completely open BroDan's post on e-mails to BBC.

by compound complex in

jw
friends

i can only see his opening post but go no further ... other threads work fine.. ?.

will check in tonight after work.. thanks,.

cc.

Amelia Ashton

Sounds like I am a spy with hidden codes in my messages!!! I'm not I promise.

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Cannot completely open BroDan's post on e-mails to BBC.

by compound complex in

jw
friends

i can only see his opening post but go no further ... other threads work fine.. ?.

will check in tonight after work.. thanks,.

cc.

Amelia Ashton

Nooo. I am not posting from a Mac whatever that is. I have an ordinary Toshiba Satellite operating Windows 7. I don't know if that info helps. I noticed not all my email to Emma posted correctly but the main bit was so I wasn't worried.

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Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

by Amelia Ashton in

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i can't believe it.

probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

now i just heard it with my own ears.

Amelia Ashton

It's a LIE

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Bethel have just DENIED Jehovah's Witnesses shun ex members!!!

by Amelia Ashton in

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friends

i can't believe it.

probably haven't been out long enough to know they lie like this.

now i just heard it with my own ears.

Amelia Ashton

That is a lot of people to lose and possibly they would round down numbers and not up with that kind of figure so it doesn't look quite so bad, that's if it's a truthful figure at all.

I presume it would not include people like me who have moved areas and effectively "vanished"?

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2 Timothy 3

by cantleave in

remember this well hacked scripture?

a jw favourite.

heres how i think it applies to them.. .

Amelia Ashton

The poor, and uneducated, and those with emotional problems on the other hand, are prone to exploitation.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires

You really know how to make a girl feel better about herself misery. Thanks

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Cannot completely open BroDan's post on e-mails to BBC.

by compound complex in

jw
friends

i can only see his opening post but go no further ... other threads work fine.. ?.

will check in tonight after work.. thanks,.

cc.

Amelia Ashton

No there wasn't a post box at the bottom. Its at the top now!

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Anyone want to share emails that they wrote to the BBC about the program this morning?

by brotherdan in

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i know many of you have sent emails to emma britton, who hosted the show this morning with our own cantleave and angus.

(btw, you guys did amazing!).

i sent my email to her as well and wanted to see if anyone else wants to share their emails.

Amelia Ashton

Thanks for fixing the problem so fast Lady Lee. It's still not viewing quite the normal way on my computer but at least I can see the posts now.

Here is the very short email I sent which is nowhere near as eloquent as the other two but possibly it will be quantity that persuades the BBC to do a follow up story. I am sure they will be surprised by this global response and the interest shown by people from as far away as America, Canada, Australia and wherever else you guys come from. The power of the internet is fantastic!

Congratulations on your programme and thank you for bringing to attention the vile practise of shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses.

I am letting you know the spokesman for Jehovah's Witnesses LIED when he said shunning is not practiced. (I am JW, not disfellowshipped or dissassociated or marked, all terms of disgrace and humiliation that get announced to the rest of the congregation). It hurts those that are not disfellowshipped too to sever all ties with friends and family who are kicked out and it is a cruel and barbaric practise used to bully and intimidate its members into being obedient. There is a very very secret 12 chapters elders book and 7 of those chapters are on disfellowshipping! (Most JWs are not even aware this book exists). I can send a pdf copy if you want. The ex Jehovah's Witnesses (the ones I am NOT ALLOWED to associate with like Angus and Nathan or else I will be shunned too) were the ones telling the truth.

There are thousands of people in pieces because of what they do and "normal" people don't know anything about it. Once one is baptised as a jehovah's witness one is trapped into the religion like a bird in a cage. Speak out and you risk losing all your friends or family.

More people need to know what they do. Please help us. Many are only in because of their families and lead double lives to avoid being d'fd. (We call it being dee effed, its easier

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Cannot completely open BroDan's post on e-mails to BBC.

by compound complex in

jw
friends

i can only see his opening post but go no further ... other threads work fine.. ?.

will check in tonight after work.. thanks,.

cc.

Amelia Ashton

Thanks Lady Lee.